We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples separated by trade barriers.

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.

There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.

If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

[When people] say 'let's do something about it,' they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.

Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges from a hostile spoken word to worldwide conflicts.

Clever wives are mostly silent, alert and pay equal attention to limiting the kind and degree of emotions of family which creates and destroy HOMES.

The pitcher that goes too often to the well is broken at last.

The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

I'm always very cautious about "brotherhood" concept. Frankly speaking, I don't need such relatives who grab my land and kill my people.

When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax.

I think of a film as being like a toy train.

I don't have a strict diet. It's all about cramming in as many calories into my system as I possibly can. To be honest with you, I have a tough time keeping weight on.

I do like fantasy films.

The most important thing you do in your life is to die.